[ 1266] Godly and wicked Men, their difference in the hatred of Sinne.
AS it is with two Children,* 1.1 the one forbears to touch a coal because it will black and smut his hand; the other will not by any means be brought to handle it, because he perceives it to be a fire-cole, and will burn his fingers: Thus all wick∣ed and ungodly Men, they will not touch sin, because it will burn; They may be and often are troubled for sin,* 1.2 but their disquietnesse for sin ariseth more from the evill of punishment, the effect of sin, then from the evill that is in the Nature of sinne, They are troubled for sinne, but it is because sinne doth destroy the soul, and not because sinne doth defile the soul; because God pursueth sinne, not because he hates sinne; more because it is against Gods justice that is provoked, then be∣cause it is against the Holinesse of God, which is dishonoured; because God threa∣tens sinne, not because God doth forbid sinne; because of the Hell for sin, not be∣cause of the Hell in sin:* 1.3 But now on the other side, all good and godly Men, they hate and loath sinne, because it is of a smutting and defiling nature, because it is a∣gainst the nature of God, because God loathes and hates it, more because it is a∣against Gods command, then because God doth punish it; not because of the damning power of sin, but because of the defiling power of ••in, &c.